Argentones

An adventuring group adventuring in the Jungle of Fangs during the Time of Troubles. In-universe, started late spring 260 AC.

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Gathered to discover who was behind a series of bizarre thefts from the local distillery.
Thwarted attempts by a rival distillery to steal the real recipe, but the real culprits were Mope and Private Eyeguana, stealing bits of things to make a nest for a little girl (Ma'li) that they had rescued. Mope is near death due to several decades of hard living in the wild.
Assisted them.
Did a job for an alchemist to gather luminous starbloom.
Hired to explore a Fanged Kingdom ruin. Were in competition with Aiko and Apsalar, who turned out to be Coiled Ones agents. The ruin collapsed, nearly killing them.
Hired to scout a bandit camp that had captured a large contingent of local soldiers sent to root it out.
- Made a deal with the local cannibal halfling tribe for safe passage
- Rescued a number of slaves working in a iron mine on the Kaelthian border.
- With some of the slaves, they raided the camp and defeated them, suffering heavy losses from among the slaves.
- One of the slaves was Ma-li's mom (Katelyn), a "barbarian" from the western mountains who had slept with a fang-kin noble. Ma-li's mom has it going on.
Reunion of Ma-li with her mom.
Discovering that Ma-li's dad is the son of Lord Kato. Happy reunions and turns out G'pa is a softie for kids.

Roh's family is from Sha'slar, and Ren's sister (and daughter) have moved there to escape scrutiny.
Songs and concerts go well.
Meet an exemplary dancer and her dwarven priest attendant.
Dude from before (Aiko) shows up on his own business, looking for Ren's daughter.
Managed to evade him and get family safe to Kato, where she's hired as a servant.

Standing song stone teaches Lark a bit of a song
Dealing with sex cult/demon cult. Violently.
Reach Asai'ka.
Investigating some murders, thefts, and other stuff.
Hired by Sapori family under false pretenses to help with a party (Lark and Roh singing)
Party attacked independently by zealots from Ar Salem Dolem and goroesi assassins seeking to kill Saiko Ssa'ka, grand-daughter of Hvang Ssa'ka. Both foiled, but with some complicity.
Party arrested. Eventually freed after a sham trial.
Alfred begins working for Saiko's group, the Kestrals, who are stealing silver to build/repair a fleet of Fanged-Kingdom-era golems; rest of party works for Sapori and (secretly) the goroesi.
Raid happens on golem shop.
- Alfred ends up transplanted into the body of an operational shadesteel golem, built by renegade cysgor. He ends up in command of the golems.
- Saiko ends up dead. As does the soul of her grandfather, who had been possessing her son (there had been some icky things there)
- Workshop destroyed
Party meets Ahzekiel Cai'Valur. Roh is killed, then resurrected for mouthing off.
Picked up Kazado here.

Next big mission is handling Ren's stuff and the corruption in the Church of the Queen Ascendant.
Infiltrated Ar Salem Dolem under aliases.
Made allies with Kortel, the bronze dragon that Enigma met, now become a criminal boss with a hoard of tea-kettles.
Attacked by Aiko and Apsalar. Killed them both, but Lark and a bystander were killed (and then rezzed at Ar Dolema)
Ended up finding a major cult operation holding Ren's not-wife-baby-momma in an old Fanged Kingdom temple north of the city (at Parel Tor).
- Also discovered that there was some child abuse happening. Saved some kids from abusive nobles, parked them with a kind couple.
- Destroyed it and saved the girl, but a mess ensued; they ended up on the slopes of Mt. Refuge near Kaelthia.
Took Ren and girl back to Kato. Ren leaves party at this point and gets married.
Picked up Jin in Sha'slar city.
On the way back to figure out what happened, found out that there were some copyright infringers ripping off Kaz's books. They died.
Kids got re-captured by Anora/Violet Bloom, a vampire sex-slaver running a "joy estate" nearby. Much violence ensued; Anora escaped. Kids safe. Eventually taken to Kato.

On the way back, defeated another coiled one cult and recovered another Midnight Orb. Explosively.
Recruited by the Opal Coalition (working with the Rainbow Serpent to defeat the Coiled Ones). Encountered Lark's brother and would-be fiancée. That didn't go well for anyone.
Task to gather objects connected to them so they can be summoned and trapped in the orbs.
...more to come